In a piece for U.S. News, senior director Anneke E. Green discussed Republican reactions to Senator Paul's filibuster:
Wednesday night in Washington was a big one for the future of the Republican Party. At the Capitol building, Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, was filibustering the nomination of John Brennan as director of the CIA. At the swanky Jefferson Hotel, Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, was convening a dinner with President Barack Obama and 12 other Republican senators. These simultaneous events revealed while elephants are no closer to resolving their party-wide identity crisis, there is a way forward.
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Managing director Clark S. Judge explained the trouble with the housing market.
Last week, I posted a summary to a New York Times op-ed by financial crisis expert Peter Wallison. Wallison had argued that a new housing bubble was developing. I included with my summary a chart that he circulated privately to back up his claim.In a comment on my post, J Climacus wrote: “I’d like to see a debate between you and [American Enterprise Institute scholar and Ricochet contributor] Jim Pethokoukis, who seems convinced that the problem is that there hasn’t been enough easy money, not that there is too much.” To me Mr. Climacus’ comment pointed to some of the most urgent issues in the economy today and widely spread confusion about them. I felt the response deserved a full post.
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Managing director Clark S. Judge describes a man who was an integral part of the Reagan administration.
William P. Clark — Judge Clark, as he was known in Washington during the Reagan years — passed away on Saturday. He was a deeply good man and an essential contributor to the successful resolution of the Cold War. The obituaries will tell you the main parts of his story, but on one point all those I have seen so far are wrong.Noting that no aide was personally closer to Mr. Reagan than Bill Clark, they all say that after serving as Deputy Secretary of State, National Security Advisor and Interior Secretary, in 1985 he left government and returned home to California. Here is how I discovered that this last detail — left government and returned home in 1985 — wasn’t true, or at least, wasn’t the whole truth, by a long shot.
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